Due to requests from potential authors, the deadline for submission to
WSCE2009 has been extended to Friday, May 15, 2009.

***** Important Dates *****

 * Submission Deadline    May 15, 2009
 * Authors Notification      June 5, 2009
 * Final Manuscript Due    June 15, 2009

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Social Computing in Education 2009 (WSCE2009)
in conjunction with SocialComp'09, August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver,
Canada

http://groups.google.com/group/WSCE2009

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsce2009

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With the advent of Web 2.0 and related technologies, Social Computing
has become a new paradigm in ways we communicate, learn, and educate.
Social platforms such as wikis, blogs, twitters, forums, groups,
podcasts, mashups, virtual worlds, and sites for social networking,
recommender systems, social bookmarking, social news, knowledge
sharing, etc. are generating novel ways we acquire, access,
manipulate, process, retrieve, present, and visualize information in
the teaching and learning space.  The social media for education has
become dynamic, ubiquitous, distributed, real-time, collaborative,
bottom-up, many-to-many, value-based, and personalized.  This workshop
solicits contributions on using Social Computing and related
technologies for education, the emerging applications of Web 2.0 as an
educational platform, as well as privacy, risk, security, and policy
issues associated in Social Computing for Education 2.0.

***** Workshop Topics *****

The one-day workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all
over the world to share information on their latest investigations in
theory and modeling of social computing, platforms, softwares,
technologies, experiments and development trend analysis, in
particular for education.

The workshop plans to have a keynote, invited talks, oral
presentations, poster presentations, and demos.  Interested topics
include but not limited to:

 * Theory and modeling of social computing in education
 * Technology and software of social computing for education
 * Social educational system design and architectures
 * Case studies, best practices, and demos of social media in
education
 * Assessment and evaluation of social computing in education
 * Benchmark and experiments on social computing in education
 * Quality and reliability of information and resources in social
media
 * Software for social learning and collaborative learning
 * Mobile learning applications for social computing
 * Semantic web for d-learning, e-learning, and m-learning
 * Virtual space for leaning communities
 * Ubiquitous, distributed, and collaborative learning
 * Integration of social learning spaces
 * Social gaming/human computation for education
 * Privacy, risk, security, and policy issues in education using
social media
 * Web 2.0 and social computing for learning (media sharing, media
manipulation, conversational arenas, online games, virtual worlds,
social networking, blogging, social bookmarking, recommender systems,
collaborative editing, wikis, syndication, QA, etc.)

***** Important Dates *****

 * Submission Deadline    May 15, 2009
 * Authors Notification    June 5, 2009
 * Final Manuscript Due    June 15, 2009

***** Submission Information *****

 * Prepare your manuscripts with IEEE conference paper styles not more
than 8 pages in PDF file (see conference website at
http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/ for more information).
 * Submit your paper(s) to https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsce2009
 * Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should
the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the
workshop to present the work in order for the paper to be included in
the IEEE Digital Library.
 * Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE CS Press.

***** Workshop Co-Chairs *****

 * Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 * Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University
 * Jennie Si, Arizona State University

***** Program Committee *****

 * Nathan Bailey, Monash University
 * Mike Brzozowski, HP Lab
 * Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia
 * Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
 * Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick
 * Haiguang Fang, Capital Normal University
 * Kinshuk, Athabasca University
 * Vive Kumar, Simon Fraser University
 * Greg Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
 * Cathy Lewin, Manchester Metropolitan University
 * Chi-Syan Lin, National University of Tainan
 * Fuhua Lin, Athabasca University
 * Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania
 * Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania
 * Qian Mo, Beijing Technology and Business University
 * Philip Tsang, Open University of Hong Kong
 * Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
 * Qiong Wang, Peking University

***** Contact Information *****

Irwin King
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
+(852) 2609 8398 voice
+(852) 2603 5024 fax

k...@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
wsce2...@easychair.org